The CIDC website has a time lapse video of the restoration on their site. It states 2010 as a completion date.

http://www.thecidc.org/Planning/BBCarousell.html

adriahna wrote on Oct 10^th, 2008, 1:36pm:


Indeed, it took well over 25 years for Jane Wallentas to restore her carousel, though she did it  by herself during most of that time.

Meanwhile, I recently heard that Nunley's Carousel is due to be up and running at the Long Island Museum Row next May 1.

Also, the favorite carousel of Dentzel (that spent a couple of seasons at Rockaway's Playland) will finally reopen to the public on October 18 at the new home of the Please Touch Museum at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.  It's been warehoused for literally many decades after never having been restored by the Smithsonian after Fred Fried sold it to them.

adriahna wrote on Oct 10^th, 2008, 9:06pm:


I went there (to Philadelphia Please Touch) yesterday, and the carousel now looks really beautiful!

Dentzel's favorite carousel at Rockaways Playland 1956-1957


On loan from Fred Fried to Music Circus carnival, Lambertville NJ 1964


Now at the Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia PA


Lead horse, yesterday and today (Fried's son & daugther in old picture)

Just a quick note that the offending post in this thread has been purged. thanks to everyone who reported it.
fred

Hi- I just found this site and joined.  My great grandfather, George Hulmes, owned the first carousel at Bertrand's Island, Lk Hopatcong, New Jersey. That carousel started out at the amusement park at Nolan's Point, Lk Hopatcong.  He eventually moved it to the Bertrand's Island Park, where he soon built the carousel house that lasted until the park closed in 1983. He ran and operated that first carousel until sometime in the early 1930's. My g-grandfather, George Hulmes sold the carousel to Louis Accamando. A few years after that Louis traded that first carousel and paid additional money ( I have seen two dollar amounts, $4500 and $7200) to a company in Coney Island for the famous Illion's.
Here is a link to the book that mentions my great grandfather's carousel, and it also has a photo of the carousel at Nolan's Point before he moved it to Bertrand's Island. The photo was probably taken in the very early 1920's.  My great grandfather is the man standing in front of the carousel to the left with his hands on his hips. His daughter, my grandmother, Myrtle Hulmes Willis is the young  lady standing a little to the right.  http://books.google.com/books?id=PIYPhm_aTqAC&pg=PA76&dq=bertrand+island+carouse...


Last year in 2008, my mother received a letter from the daughter of Nellie and Joe Delorenzo.  She mentions that Louis Accomando was her father's foster uncle and that he had bought that first carousel from my g-grandfather.  She was trying to get information about the carousel for the National Carousel Association.  I am sure I have some of my grandmother's old photos of the carousel.  I remember my grandmother once saying that when her father died in 1936, they found an unfinished carousel horse in the attic.  They didn't know what to do with it, so they gave it to the traveling junk man.